December 27, 2011

#SciAmBlogs Monday - snow, cold, reindeer, glaciers and more...

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Welcome back from the long holiday weekend.

As always on Monday, we have a new Image of the Week for you to check out.

And most of the bloggers were in the Winter holiday mood - lots of posts about snow, cold and reindeer ;-)

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- Jason G. Goldman - Rudolph Would Have Run Away From SantaandSunday Photoblogging: Happy Chanukah

- Jennifer Ouellette - Christmas with Faraday: The Chemical History of a CandleandLet It Snow: The Science of Snowflakes

- Emily Eggleston - Winter Wonders: The Science of Cold

- Cheryl Murphy - It’s Snow Wonder

- David Bressan - Cursed GlaciersandDecember 26, 2003 & 2004: Earthquake of Bam & Indonesian Tsunami

- Kelly Oakes - The Strange Case of the Christmas Burst

- Scicurious - That Warm Friendly Drink…makes you more Warm and Friendly.andFriday Weird Science: cockroach sex phermones and woodpeckers

- Bora Zivkovic - Evolutionary Medicine: Does reindeer have a circadian stop-watch instead of a clock?

- Davide Castelvecchi - The Reawakening of X-Ray Delta One

- Cassie Rodenberg - Drugs, as seen from a 12-year-old

- Katherine Harmon - Green Glow Shows RNA Editing in Real Time

- John Matson - Newfound Gas Cloud Points to Possible Planets Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Science and ethics shouldn’t be muddled (or, advice for Jesse Bering).

- Kate Clancy - Dear Kate: I am a science provocateur

- John Horgan - Killing Environmentalism to Save It: Two Greens Call for ‘Postenvironmentalism’

- Melissa C. Lott - Not Your Average Tree Lighting

- Jennifer Frazer - The Christmas Wreath Lichen in the Corkscrew Swamp Wishes You a Happy Holiday

- Glendon Mellow and Kalliopi Monoyios - Merry Merry from Symbiartic

- Jennifer Jacquet - Christmas Google Trends

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